The Department of Health have published a set of papers from the first meeting of the Ministerial Advisory Group on the Mental Health Strategy, chaired by Paul Burstow, Minister of State for Care Services. The Minister leads on overseeing the implementation of No health without mental Health: a cross-government mental health outcomes strategy for people of [read the full story…]
The Centre for Policy Studies have published a report, which concludes that despite being well-intentioned, plans to introduce Payment by Results (PbR) trials are unlikely to succeed. The report by leading drugs analyst Kathy Gyngell claims that: New Labour’s approach to drug addiction – prescribing addicts with methadone in an attempt to reduce crime and [read the full story…]
The Department of Health have today published the framework that informs mental health trusts, PCTs and SHAs of the criteria against which mental health performance will be assessed. This supercedes the guidance published in Nov 2009 and builds on the NHS Performance Framework published last month. Documents and spreadsheets can be found on the DH [read the full story…]
